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Monday, December 2, 2013

Sometimes You Just Have To Say "F%&k Yeah!"

I would not consider myself a lucky collector, my wife
has the lucky hand when it comes to opening packs. In the past couple of months
I have won a couple of contests including the box of Panini Beach Boys a few
weeks ago, but my big time luck seems to have changed last week when I received
an email from Beckett’s Chris Olds telling me I had won a Beckett contest. An email that actually left me speechless,
something that is quite rare.

A one of a kind (Beckett exclusive), 24k gold Kogei shadowbox
Koji Uehara autograph card. This card is freaking amazing and even cooler
looking in hand.

The card is a standard shadowbox card with three levels,
the bottom level is the gold card and there are two layers of acetate above
that. Uehara’s face is on the gold card, the full-body shot is on the lower
acetate level and the autograph is on the top layer and is hard signed. The
card is in a magnetic holder with a “VOID” sticker over the end, so it will be
staying in the holder.

The back is generic the info “2013 World Stars Toreka…”
is actually a sticker across the back. The sticker also includes the word
“BECKETT” marking it as an exclusive made for Beckett to do the Box Buster
video. The serial number in the bottom right corner is marked as “A* Products”,
when I pulled up the web site it is an art work studio so I am not sure what
the serial number references, maybe the studio was involved with the gold work.

Brothers Inc., the company that produces the World Stars set, makes some very nice cards. The 2013 set is made up of Kogei shadowbox cards, Autorait cards (autograph portraits), Autographed sketch cards, jumbo relics and re-packed buyback mystery cards. Each box contains 2 or 3 cards and runs around $175-200 per box. The product is supposed to be released right after Christmas.

This is one card that will never leave my collection. It
truly is a thing of beauty.

About Me

I started collecting as a kid but by the time I hit my teens my interests were elsewhere. I returned to the hobby in 1992, just in time to see the junk wax era go in to full swing. My collecting interests have changed over the past 25 years and I prefer to focus on just a couple of players.

My collection is very specific now because I want to keep it controlled and organized, I now focus mainly on my Ken Griffey Jr. & Jay Buhner collections.